District Attorney Dashboard
Introducing Our Dashboard
Welcome to the Winnebago County DA’s Office’s Data Dashboards. CCAP currently provides public information regarding specific cases in the courts. These dashboards will help us advance our goals of increased transparency and understanding of the criminal justice system in our county from a system overview perspective.
Key Dashboard Takeaways
Timeliness
We believe that timely filing of criminal cases benefits both the community and the offender. Bond conditions and intervention plans can protect victims while also engaging offenders in treatment and/or monitoring for drug, alcohol, and mental health issues. Many obstacles exist to timely filing and disposition of criminal cases including: increased complexity, increased procedural requirements, increased use of media such as body cameras and video evidence, and significant delays in appointments of defense counsel. Despite these changes and challenges, Winnebago County continues to file cases quickly (generally within 30 days of a case being sent to our office), and reach disposition more quickly than most counties.Explore Time to Disposition →Something to Watch
Prior criminal convictions significantly impact sentencing in criminal cases. Individuals with prior felony convictions are sentenced to some sort of incarceration more frequently than individuals without prior felony convictions. We are also seeing that more than half of individuals being sentenced for felony convictions already have one or more felony convictions. We seek to appropriately balance the seriousness of the incident with each offender’s characteristics, such as prior record, when making sentencing recommendations.Explore Sentences →
Key Dates in Wisconsin's Criminal Justice System
When exploring the Winnebago County DA Dashboard, there are important law and policy changes and events to account for. When interpreting this dashboard, consider whether these changes could explain a sudden change in the data.
Evidence-Based Decision Making
Wisconsin implements evidence-based decision-making program to establish and test the application of evidence-based practices to criminal justice decisions, with the goal of achieving measurable reductions in pretrial misconduct and post-conviction risk of reoffending
Marsy's Law
Voters approve an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution that adds 17 specific rights for crime victims to the state constitution. The amendment includes rights to privacy, timely notice of release, full restitution from the accused, and notification of all proceedings of a criminal case upon request.
This dashboard was created through the collaboration of the Winnebago County District Attorney's Office, Loyola University Chicago's Center for Criminal Justice, Mindful Metrics, and the Prosecutorial Performance Indicators. The goal of the dashboard is to ensure that the general public has access to data about the review and prosecution of criminal cases in Winnebago County. This project has been supported by Microsoft and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
